No State Shall Abridge
Subtitle: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780822305996
Subjects: Political structure & processes; U.S. Constitutional History; History; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights; United States.; Politics - Current Events; General; USA; Law and legislation; Legal Studies; cloth; Civil rights; United States; 14th Amendment; African Americans; Constitution; Constitution.; Slavery
First sentence: When the American colonies rebelled against Great Britain, the rebels gave their reasons in the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.